The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 204

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Chapter 143: Return… and move forward.-1

Clara

There is something about this place… who no longer feels alien. I don’t know at what exact moment it happened.

There was no specific day, no clear sign telling me “you’re fine here.”

Simply… it happened.

I open my eyes slowly, and the first thing I see is the light coming through the curtains.

That same light that I knew by heart before. The same one that filtered every morning when I woke up in this house… when it was my home. Now… I don’t know if I should call it that yet. But it doesn’t hurt anymore.

I sit up a little on the bed, leaning my back against the headboard. I run a hand over my face, taking a deep breath.

I feel… Relax. And that feeling… is new.

I look next to me, Ethan is not there. But there’s no anxiety in that. There is not that discomfort of before, that feeling of absence. Because now I know where it is, because now… he comes back. He always comes back.

I smile just thinking about it.

I get up calmly, walk barefoot around the room. Everything remains the same… but it no longer feels like a memory frozen in time.

It feels… alive. I open the closet, it’s not just his clothes… there’s also mine.

My clothes are no longer just in a suitcase. It already takes up space. My space. I take a blouse, comfortable pants. As I get dressed, my mind goes to the same thing.

To these days, to how they have been. How… he has been.

Ethan hasn’t insisted, he hasn’t pushed. He has not made empty promises, he has done

small, constant, real things.

Coffee as I like it means a lot and is part of the fact that I have made this decision.

Asking myself before deciding something, listening… really listening. Being present.

That’s what weighs the most, because before… He was, but he wasn’t. And now… he is in

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everything.

I exhale slowly, looking at myself in the mirror.

“It’s not what he says,” I murmur to myself. “That’s what he does.”

And that… it changes everything.

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I’m not here because he asked me to, I’m here because I want to. Because I decided to stay.

Because I’m seeing him… different. And because for the first time in a long time… I don’t feel like I’m alone being in a couple.

I leave the room and go downstairs. As soon as I reach the last step, I see him in the kitchen, with his back turned, serving coffee.

stay there for a second… watching him. The way he moves, the calm he transmits.

As if this place… were changing him too.

“Good morning,” he says, without turning around.

I frown slightly.

“How do you know I’m here?”

He smiles slightly, turning around.

“I heard you come down.”

I roll my eyes, but I can’t help but smile.

“Of course.”

I approach. He hands me a cup.

“As you like it.”

I take it. Our fingers barely touch each other, and that’s enough. It’s always enough.

“Thank you,” I say quietly.

He nods, staring at me a second longer than usual.

“Did you sleep well?”

“Yes,” I answer. “Better.”

And it’s true.

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Much better.

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A few days have passed. Days when I haven’t been back to the office. Not because I don’t

want to… but because I didn’t need it. I have worked from here.

From this house, from our house. The word still rings a bell… new, but no longer

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